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Brews You Can Use

I'm not sure I'm overly-fond of this one (a recipe for homosexual beer drinkers?), but it's different: > Beer Sorbet > 4 oz. Hoegaarden Wit (or other white beer) 4 oz. Stella Artois (this was an InBev dinner, but substitute any other minimally hopped

Holy Wine

Yahoo News leads this morning with a story about California Trappists that have started to make wine [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20060522/ap_tr_ge/travel_trip_california_monastery] . I tried to find if there's a place where I could order the wine on-line, but

Brews You Can Use

Nine reasons to drink beer [http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=154]: - Reduces the risk of heart disease - Helps keep blood pressure down and reduce the risk of stroke - Benefits the immune system meaning healthy adults are less prone to get infections - Has anti-inflammatory effects which

Brews You Can Use III

What is America's best lite beer? In this Philly taste test, [http://cbs3.com/consumer/local_story_118213542.html] no clear winner was declared. But they made one finding that I enjoy: Bud Light is no good. The best lite beer, incidentally, is MGD Lite (just my opinion,

Brews You Can Use II

Need a beer for Cinco de Mayo [http://www.vivacincodemayo.org/history.htm]? Try this [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/04/WIGA7IJFVB1.DTL], a beer with chipotle chiles (smoked jalapenos). I'll pass, but if that's your thing, drink away.

Brews You Can Use

How much can you drink tonight? To merriness. From Charles Coulombe's article, Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion, in the most recent Catholic Men's Quarterly [http://www.houseonthemoor.com/]: > [T]he view of the Church [with respect to drink] go back to the Book of Proverbs'

Brews You Can Use III and Half and Half

> Reuters reports ice cream makers Ben & Jerry's have apologized for causing offense by calling a new flavor “Black & Tan” - the nickname of a notoriously violent British militia that operated during Ireland's war of independence. > The ice cream, available only in the

Brews You Can Use

Bless the brewers: > Czech brewers are working to create a beer that would counter the discomforts of menopause [http://www.realbeer.com/news/articles/news-002908.php]. > The low-calorie, low-alcohol beer being developed by the Prague-based Research Institute of Brewing and Malting contains heightened levels of phytoestrogen, a plant

Brews You Can Use III

In case you weren't drinking tonight, if this doesn't get your taste buds moving, nothing will:

Brews You Can Use II

I've been looking for a site like this: a comprehensive list of beers and their alcohol content [http://www.realbeer.com/edu/health/calories.php]. Now I can really calculate the biggest bang for the buck.